The full details of the soundtrack album for the adventure romantic comedy The Lost City have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Pinar Toprak (Captain Marvel, Stargirl, Us Again, McMillions, Krypton, The Angel, Fortnite). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, March 25 by Paramount Music and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. A CD version will be available to order on Tuesday, March 29 by La-La Land Records and will be available to order on Amazon and the label’s official website. The Lost City is directed by Adam Nee & Aaron Nee and stars Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Patti Harrison, Oscar Nuñez, Bowen Yang and Brad Pitt. The movie follows an author who has spent her career writing about exotic places in her popular romance-adventure novels who is kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes that she can lead him to the ancient lost city’s treasure from her latest story. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Lost City’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: March 24, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aaron Nee, Adam Nee, Pinar Toprak, score, Soundtrack, The Lost City
‘Everybody Hates Johan’ (‘Alle hater Johan’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 24, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alle hater Johan, Everybody Hates Johan, Hallvar Witzø, score, Soundtrack
Kursiv Plater has released a soundtrack album for the Norwegian comedy Everybody Hates Johan (Alle hater Johan). The album features the film’s original music composed by Jørund Fluge Samuelsen (Oslo Zoo). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. Everybody Hates Johan is directed by Hallvar Witzø and stars Pål Sverre Hagen and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal. The movie chronicles the life of the title character, a small town loner with a flair for dynamite who finds himself in constant conflict with the rural community. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Vanishing’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: March 23, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Denis Dercourt, Jérôme Lemonnier, score, Soundtrack, Vanishing
La Majeur will release a soundtrack album for the French/Korean romantic thriller Vanishing. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jérôme Lemonnier (A Pact, The Page Turner, Tomorrow at Dawn, Alex Hugo, In Harmony). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, March 24 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Vanishing is directed by Denis Dercourt and stars Olga Kurylenko, Yoo Yeon-Seok and Ye Ji-won. The movie follows a forensic scientist who invented a revolutionary technique in the field of restoring damaged corpses and visits South Korea to attend a conference, when she receives a request from the Korean police to perform an autopsy on a corpse found in a river. Read the rest of this entry »
Brooke & Will Blair Scoring Macon Blair’s ‘The Toxic Avenger’
Posted: March 23, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brooke Blair, Macon Blair, The Toxic Avenger, Will Blair
Composers Brooke Blair & Will Blair (Green Room, Hold the Dark, Blue Ruin, The Informer, Sweet Virginia, Black Christmas) are reteaming with writer/director/actor Macon Blair on the upcoming superhero action comedy The Toxic Avenger. The film starring Peter Dinklage, Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, Kevin Bacon, Julia Davis and Elijah Wood is based on Troma Entertainment’s 1984 cult classic of the same title and follows a struggling everyman who is pushed into a vat of toxic waste and transformed into a mutant freak who must go from shunned outcast to underdog hero as he races to save his son, his friends and his community from the forces of corruption and greed. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Moonlight’ Deluxe 5th Anniversary Edition Box Set Soundtrack Announced
Posted: March 23, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight, Nicholas Britell, score, Soundtrack
A24 has announced a new soundtrack album for the Academy Award-winning 2016 drama Moonlight written and directed by Barry Jenkins and starring Naomie Harris, Andre Holland, Mahershala Ali, Trevante Rhodes, Janelle Monae, Alex R. Hibbert, Jaden Piner, Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome. The double vinyl deluxe box set includes the Oscar-nominated original score from the movie composed by Nicholas Britell (Succession, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Big Short, Cruella, Don’t Look Up, The Underground Railroad, Cruella, Vice), as well as the songs from the film, including eleven previously unreleased tracks, over 100 pages of never-before published photography, handwritten sheet music from Britell and an essay by Barry Jenkins. The soundtrack is expected to ship this September and is now available for pre-order in A24’s online store. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Cowboys’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 23, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anna Kerrigan, Cowboys, Gene Back, score, Soundtrack
Gardener Recordings has released a soundtrack album for the western Cowboys. The album features the film’s original music composed by Gene Back (Holler). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Cowboys is written and directed by Anna Kerrigan and stars Steve Zahn, Jillian Bell, Ann Dowd, Gary Farmer, Bob Stephenson, Chris Coy, John Reynolds and Sasha Knight. The movie follows a troubled but well-intentioned father who has recently separated from his wife who refuses to let their trans son live as his authentic self and runs off with the son into the Montana wilderness. Read the rest of this entry »
Jay Wadley Scoring Andrew Ahn’s ‘Fire Island’
Posted: March 23, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrew Ahn, Fire Island, Hulu, Jay Wadley
Jay Wadley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Swan Song, Indignation, I Carry You with Me, Tales from the City, Olympic Dreams) has recently been scoring the upcoming romantic comedy Fire Island. The film is directed by Andrew Ahn (Spa Night) and stars Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang, Zane Phillips, James Scully, Tomas Matos, Matt Rogers, Conrad Ricamora, Nick Adams Torian Miller and Margaret Cho. The movie inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is set in the New York hamlet of Fire Island Pines and revolves around around two best friends who set out to have a legendary weeklong summer vacation with the help of cheap rosé and a cadre of eclectic friends. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Hill Where Lionesses Roar’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: March 23, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aldo Shllaku, Luàna Bajrami, score, Soundtrack, The Hill Where Lionesses Roar
Plaza Mayor Company will release a soundtrack album for the drama The Hill Where Lionesses Roar (La colline où rugissent les lionnes). The album features the film’s original music composed by Aldo Shllaku (The Comeback Trail, The Doorman, The Poison Rose, Downrange, Vanquish, Triumph). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 22 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Hill Where Lionesses Roar is written and directed by Luàna Bajrami and stars Flaka Latifi, Uratë Shabani, Era Balaj, Andi Bajgora and Luàna Bajrami. The movie is set in a remote Kosovar village and follows three young women who feel their dreams have been stifled go on a quest for independence. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Faithful’ (‘De nos frères blessés’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 23, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: De nos frères blessés, Emile Sornin, Faithful, Forever Pavot, Hélier Cisterne, score, Soundtrack
440 Hz has released a soundtrack album for the French/Belgian/Algerian drama Faithful (De nos frères blessés). The album features the film’s original music composed by Forever Pavot (aka Emile Sornin). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. Faithful is co-written and directed by Hélier Cisterne and stars Vincent Lacoste, Vicky Krieps, Jules Langlade and Marc Brunet. The movie is set in 1950s Algiers and tells the story of a communist dissident Fernand Iveton, who, on a brief trip to Paris for medical tests, falls in love with an escapee from an oppressive regime in Poland. Read the rest of this entry »
Beyoncé, Billie Eilish & Finneas, Sebastián Yatra, Reba McEntire and Sebastián Yatra to Perform at 94th Academy Awards
Posted: March 22, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has confirmed that four of the five Oscar-nominated original songs will be performed live at this Sunday’s 94th Academy Awards ceremony. Beyoncé‘ will perform the end titles track Be Alive from Reinaldo Marcus Green’s King Richard, Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Donnell will perform their Grammy Award-winning title song from No Time to Die, Reba McEntire will perform the Diane Warren-penned Somehow You Do from Rodrigo Garcia’s Four Good Days and Sebastián Yatra will perform the Lin-Manuel Miranda-written Dos Oruguitas from Disney’s animated feature Encanto. Read the rest of this entry »
